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New Menus for Windows 1.4
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Vendor Information
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Name of the Archive
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NMFW141E.ZIP
or
NM141E.ZIP
One line description
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New Menus f. Win. Win95/X-Win-like graph. Popup-Menu Win 3.1-Shell
Replaces:
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NMW12??.ZIP
NMFW11?.ZIP
MENU10?.ZIP
MENU09?.ZIP
Suggested category/Keyword:
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/ MS Windows / Desktop
or
/ MS Windows / Shell
or
/MS Windows / Program Managers
WIN SHELL UNIX-LIKE MENU PROGRAM-MANAGER
Author/Publisher Information:
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Dipl.Ing. Roger Rene Kommer
EMail:
Internet: roger@architektur.uni-kassel.de
CIS: 100412,3624
Fido: 2:2437/501.10
Suface address:
Roger Rene Kommer
Doernbergstr. 11
D - 34119 Kassel
Germany
System requirements
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Windows/WfW 3.1
Mouse recommended
Shareware payment required from private users:
Yes (20$ US)
Shareware payment required from corporates:
Yes (20$ US)
Demo / NagWare:
NO
Self-documenting:
NO
External documentation included:
Windows Helpfile, ~120 pages English
Sources included:
NO
Size of archive:
~550 kb compressed / ~1.6 MB uncompressed
DISTRIBUTION
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You have my permission to distribute New Menus for Windows 1.4
with following restrictions:
You may not use New Menus for Windows 1.4 in advertisements,
catalogs, or other literature which describes this product as
"FREE SOFTWARE". Shareware is "Try-Before-You-Buy" software, it
is not free.
Please keep all files listed below together in the archive, or in
an archive format suitable for your library.
I would appreciate copies of anything you print regarding New
Menus for Windows. Please send me a copy of any reviews,
articles, catalog descriptions, or other information you print or
distribute regarding the New Menus for Windows package. Thank you
for your time and assistance and for supporting the shareware
marketing concept.
DESCRIPTIONS
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1 line description, 30 chars:
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Win95/XWin-like Win3.1-Shell
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Win95/XWin-like graph. Popup-Menu Win 3.1-Shell
2 line description, a 50 chars:
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New Menus for Windows v1.4 <ASP> - Win95/Motif/
OpenLook like shell and Desktop enhancement
250 Byte
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New Menus for Windows v1.4 <ASP> - Win4/Motif/OpenLook like
shell and desktop enhancement with Graph. popup menus w. icons
and a needle to stick it on the desktop, Virtual Desktop and
context sensitive Menus.
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New Menus for Windows v1.4 <ASP> - a Win-
shell similar to the UNIX X-Windows Manger
OpenLook, Motif and the 'Chicago' GUI. With a
graph. popup menu to a quick access to apps,
docs, directories, tasks and more. Enhances
window managment with a Virtual Desktop,
layout functions and enhanced system menu.
Provides customizable context senstive menus.
Every menu, even apps menus, can be stuck
onto the desktop. Multi-user configuration.
750 byte
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New Menus for Windows v1.4 <ASP> - Win4/Motif/OpenLook like
shell and desktop enhancement with graphical popup menus, Virtual
Desktop and X-Window like window managment. Every time you push
the right mousebutton (or a Hotkey) a popup menu appears for
quick access to your applications, documents, directories(!),
tasks, Program-Manager groups, Windows API (or DLL-functions) and
keyboard macros. All menuitems are shown with icon, available in
several graph. styles and can be grouped in submenus - as many
and as deep as you like. Every Menu can be stuck onto the desktop
with a needle - even normal application menus! Enhances DOS-boxes,
File-Manager and edit controls with context sensitive popupmenus.
Allows multi-user configuration. Shareware.
Short description (1500 bytes)
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New Menus for Windows 1.4 <ASP> is a shell and a desktop enhancement
for MS Windows 3.1, quite similar to some window managers of the
X-window system (GUI of UNIX f.e. Motif, OpenLook) and the upcoming
GUI of Windows 95, with many features, lean resource needs (82% GDI &
95% USER) and highly configurable. To launch programs, you just have
to push the right (or middle) mousebutton to get a graphic popup menu.
The programs and documents can be grouped in submenus. The items are
visualized with icons. Each submenu can be stuck to your desktop with
a needle. The Menu supports the Program Manager-groups, wild cards,
directory browsing, Windows API (DLL) calls, batches with keyboard
macros, etc. Many special functions for window and task management are
available. Windows can be activated by only moving the mouse into the
window. Another basic feature is the possibility to stick normal
application menus onto the desktop. The systemmenus can be enhanced
and customized by the user. Some window controls (edit control, File
Manager, DOS-box, etc.) have enhanced features, which are accessible
via context sensitive popup-menus. The user can also compile their own
individual context sensitive menus for all window programs. With the
integrated Virtual Desktop, a desktop up to 64 larger is accessible
with a mouse click. The layout of windows can be saved in the context
of Virtual Desktops. The Menu supports system administration for
multi-user installations.
Long description
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Windows at your fingertips: New Menus for Windows 1.4 is a
Windows Shell, similar to some of the window managers of
X-Windows (UNIX GUI, e.g. Motif, OpenLook).
THE MENUING SYSTEM
The kernel of the program is a replacement for the Program
Manager in a popup menu format, which you can popup at any time
with the right or middle mouse button. This popup menu can have
as many submenus (like subdirectories in a file system) as you
like. The menu items can be programs, documents or function
calls. But the popup menu is not a simple, normal, windows popup
menu. It doesn't look like one and it behaves differently. An
icon and description are displayed for all programs and documents
Ad libitum. These icons can have a size of 32, 24 or 16 pixels -
it is even possible to represent menu items as animated icons. By
default the icons of the programs, or of the applications
associated with documents, are shown. You can also customise the
icons. The font and font size is also configurable. For each
submenu, you can choose to display the text only, the icon only
or both. To frame a menu item, you can choose between 4 styles,
of which one simulates the Design of Motif and another of
OpenLook. From OpenLook, another idea is implemented for Windows:
every (sub-)menu can be stuck onto the desktop. You can install
new menu items similar to the Program Manager Menu Groups or Menu
Items. Installation of new menu items is supported by dialogues
or via drag'n drop. During installation, the Program Manager
groups are converted into menu items. When working with
documents, you do not have to install each file as a menu item.
New Menus for Windows supports wild cards, which automatically
fill submenus with matching files. It is also possible to include
parts of a file system into the menu structure: The
subdirectories are submenus and all files are menu items. These
dynamically built menu items can be sorted by name, extension,
date or size (also in reverse order). If you stick a (sub-)menu
on your desktop you can use it as a button bar, which also
supports drag'n'drop with the File manager. With a menu item you
can do more than launch a program or open a file: You can declare
Keyboard macros or you can call a system-function of Windows or
of another DLL. Whole submenus can be executed as batches. In a
Tasks-Submenu you can switch between your running applications -
which are shown with their icons and titles - hide windows, or
terminate the applications. In another Submenu you can switch
between your installed printers, invoke their property-dialogue
or drag files to print on a specific printer. In a submenu called
History, all executed items are listed as a command history.
Other special features are only listed by name: Rebooting
Windows, rebooting DOS; quit Windows - execute DOS-program -
restart Windows, Save all documents in all programs; Close all
applications; the layout functions of Taskman; Save Desktop
(window positions); Kill a window; etc. The access to Submenus is
highly customisable, several mouse button / keyboard combinations
are supported (also an emulation of the middle mouse button). You
can assign a global hotkey to each submenu or menu item (in
combination with keyboard macros you can also redefine your
keyboard layout). To jump quickly from one Submenu to another,
you can use shortcuts.
All of these options are configurable via dialogues. The menu
structure is edited with a 'visual menu editor', including
copying and moving single items or whole menu structure sub
trees.
VIRTUAL DESKTOP AND WINDOW MANAGEMENT
From the X-Window system, two more ideas are implemented in New
Menus for Windows. With a built in Virtual Desktop you can
magnify your desktop into 64 virtual desktops. You can access any
one of the virtual desktops by clicking in the Virtual Desktop
viewer. Known by OpenLook and Motif, is the possibility to
activate a window just by moving the mouse cursor. With one mode
of the XMouse feature you can automatically bring the window up
to the front of all other windows by only moving the mouse into
any part of the window. With the other mode, the window under the
mouse cursor will be activated, but the order of the window stack
will not be changed.
All of these features are integrated in the menuing system. With
the enhanced system menu, the behavior in the context of the
Virtual Desktop and the XMouse of single windows are
customizable.
ENHANCEMENT OF THE STANDARD WINDOWS
APPLICATIONS DROP DOWN MENUS
If you select a normal drop down menu of a windows application
with the right mouse button (e.g. the "Edit" menu in Write) you
get a new designed menu. Besides the nicer (customisable) look of
this menu you can stick it onto the desktop and use it as a
button bar. That is, if you have to switch between several
documents in a multi-document based program often, you can stick
the menu "Window" onto the desktop and have quick access. The
System menu is also enhanced - here is the key to a nicer and
more functional System menu with the right mouse button. The
standard functions in the System menu are also illustrated with
icons. Instead of the item "switch to..." you get a Submenu with
all Tasks. You can hold each window at the top of the desktop
(like the clock). You can append more menu items and submenus to
the system menu.
ENHANCEMENT OF WINDOWS CONTROLS WITH
CONTEXT SENSITIVE POPUP MENUS
More and more applications use the right mouse button to give a
quicker context sensitive access to objects the mouse points at.
New Menus provides some context sensitive menus which are
'forgotten' by Windows:
Edit controls (e.g. notepad): Copy; Cut; Insert; Undo; Mark all;
Search; Save (ANSI, ASCII, UNIX); convert all lower or higher
case; statistics. Format paragraphs with left margin, left,
middle, center or right and left align.
List boxes: Copy the string of the marked item.
Scroll Bars: Up, down, left, right.
File-Manager: Copy marked files / directory as text string (which
you can use as arguments for other programs); Load file in FileViewer
or FileEditor; Print File; file operations (copy, move, etc.).
DOS-Box: Mark; Copy; Insert
It is relatively simple to customize your applications with other
context sensitive menus. To extract the menus from a window
program, a tool is enclosed in the package.
MULTI-USER CONFIGURATION
New Menus for Windows supports different configurations for
different users and network administration. First, you can
declare an individual INI-file as a command line (also as an
argument for WIN.COM). Each user can modify his own
configuration. But a system administrator can also hold
predefined menu files in a directory in the path, which can be
linked as submenus to individual menu structures. These external
menus can be locked against changes. If a new application is
installed in the network, the system administrator will only have
to modify one file.
OTHER QUALITIES
New Menus has very lean runtime resource requirements. It needs
at minimum ca. 40kB non discardable RAM and 2% of the
system-resources, which does not depend on the size of the menu
structure. What you need is Windows 3.1(1) or WfW. New Menus
supports all mice and trackballs, but you can also use the Menu
without a mouse.
AVAILABLE
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English version:
ftp.cica.indiana.edu:/pub/windows/desktop/nmfw141e.zip
(or mirrors)
garbo.uwasa.fi:/windows/desktop/nmfw141e.zip
(or mirrors)
ftp.uni-koeln.de:/pc/win3/manager/nmfw141e.zip
CompuServe: GO WINSHARE, Lib Program Managers nm141e.exe
German version:
ftp.uni-koeln.de:/pc/win3/manager/nmfw141g.zip
ftp.fu-berlin.de:/pub/pc/win3/misc/nmfw141g.zip
ftp.hrz.uni-kassel.de:/pub/machines/dos/win3/nmfw141g.zip
CompuServe: GO GERWIN, Lib Tools nm141g.exe
Fido: 2:2437/501 - 2:2437/502 (49-561-5740777, 49-561-573967) nmfw141g.arj
Thanks for your attention.